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The Sumerians built structures primarily from mud due to a lack of stone or wood in their environment. Their religious beliefs influenced their society's organization by making priests and royals the highest class as agents of the gods. Scholars consider the Sumerians innovative because they created a writing system, base-60 number system, and made achievements in astronomy and geometry.

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The Sumerians built structures primarily from mud due to a lack of stone or wood in their environment. Their religious beliefs influenced their society's organization by making priests and royals the highest class as agents of the gods. Scholars consider the Sumerians innovative because they created a writing system, base-60 number system, and made achievements in astronomy and geometry.

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3. Drawing Conclusions What role did the physical environment play in the development of Sumerian civilization?

Due to the lack of stone or wood to build anything with, but an excess of mud, the Sumerians primarily used mud to
build structures.

4. Analyzing How did religious beliefs influence the organization of Sumerian society?

The priests and the royals were the highest class in Sumerian society because they were the agents of the gods, in
the public view.

5. Gathering Information Based on their achievement, why do scholars consider the Sumerians to be innovative?

They created a writing system, a base-60 number system, and made achievements in astronomy and geometry.

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